Green Mile Movie Review

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Green Mile Movie Review Green Mile (2000) Cast: Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb), Michael Clarke Duncan(John Coffey), and Doug Hutchison(Percy Jackson). Director: Frank Darabont Review: “I just can't see God putting a gift like that in the hands of a man who would kill a child.”( Darabont) As Paul Edgecombe tells his fellow prison guards friends. The movie was directed and written by Frank Darabout in 1999, based on the novel by Stephen king, one of the best-renounced authors out there. The story is about a 8-foot giant John Coffey ("like the drink, only not spelled the same".”( Darabont)), on a death row for a crime he hadn’t done. Paul Edgecomb a Louisiana death row guard wonders why John Coffey is accused of such a crime. Yet Paul is surprised how a man that big can cry and be afraid of the dark. According to IMDb, green mile won four Oscars for Best Action/adventure/thriller film, best supporting actor (Michael Clarke Duncan), Best supporting Actress (Patrica Clackrson), Best screenplay, picture, and actor(Tom Hanks). Just naming a few still awards doesn’t cut it, this movie deserves more for its outstanding acting and its amazing moral it has behind it. Green mile was about a 8-foot giant, John Coffey, who cries, is scared of the dark and has god given powers. He stumbles by two young girls in help, yet finds them too late for him to cure them and bring them to life. He then was sent on death row to the Louisiana state penitentiary, accused of killing the girls. The story takes place mostly on the “E-block”, the block where Paul worked. Paul worked along side with his fellow guard mates. Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison) one of the prison guards who works along with Paul, creates a lot of problem on the “E-block”. “Percy, whose aunt is married to the governor, and who could have any state job he wants, but likes it here because "he wants to see one cook up

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